Deuteronomy 4:46
This was when they were in the valley to the east of the Jordan near Beth-peor in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites. He had ruled from Heshbon and had been defeated by Moses and the Israelites after they had left Egypt.
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45These are the laws, rules, and regulations Moses gave them after they had come out of Egypt.
Cross References
Numbers 21:23But Sihon refused to allow the Israelites to travel through his territory. Instead, he called out his whole army and went out to meet the Israelites head-on in the desert. When he arrived at Jahaz, he attacked the Israelites.
Numbers 21:35So they killed Og, his sons, and all his army. Nobody survived, and the Israelites took over his country.
Deuteronomy 1:4This happened after he defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and then at Edrei after he defeated Og king of Bashan, who ruled in Ashtaroth.
Deuteronomy 2:30But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through, for the Lord your God gave him a stubborn spirit and an obstinate attitude, so the Lord could hand him over to you, as he has now done.
Deuteronomy 3:29So we remained there in the valley near Beth-peor.
Deuteronomy 34:6He buried him in a valley there in Moab that is opposite Beth-peor, but no one knows to this day where Moses' grave is.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 4:42-49
41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; 42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: 43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites. 44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: 45 These are the testimonies, and the… Read the whole commentary →